The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
North Korea is creating its own time zone. It's going to push the country's time back a half hour. So it's not… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
To be frank, my belief is if you just keep your head down and work, and you have the fortune to be… — Mark Walter Copy Share Image
If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate. — Nancy Pickard Copy Share Image
Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal. — Democritus Copy Share Image
In the quest for fortune and fame...don't forget about the simple things. — India.Arie Copy Share Image
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
(Adron leveled a scowl that made him shrink back.) Jeeze, you ought to bottle that look. I know armies that would pay… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune… — Mary Hart Copy Share Image
Behind every liberal philanthropist fortune is a huge capitalist score. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett can afford now to be liberal -… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers… — Ferdinand Lassalle Copy Share Image
In the modern era, it isn't enough to write, you must also be the Writer, with a capital 'W,' and play your… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
